From 1988 onwards there have been a number of major international tournaments in which the best players from all three major go-playing countries have been able to compete. On this page we present some statistics on the winners of these tournaments. At the end are listed the tournaments which are included.
These figures are as of July 2004, and 49 tournaments are included.
Numbers of tournament wins for each player are as follows:
Yi Ch'ang-ho 16 Cho Hun-hyeon 9 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 6 Yi Se-tol 3 Ma Xiaochun 2 O Rissei 2 Takemiya Masaki 2 Cho Chikun 2 Kobayashi Koichi 1 Otake Hideo 1 Pak Yeong-hun 1 Rin Kaiho 1 Seo Pong-su 1 Yoda Norimoto 1 Yu Bin 1
The tallies for each country are as follows. (I count each player according to the country he usually plays in. This is somewhat generous to Japan, since O Rissei and Rin Kaiho are from Taiwan, and Cho Chikun is from Korea.)
Korea 36 Japan 10 China 3
The following tournaments are included in the above statistics:
The following is a list of the winners, in chronological order of the date of the win (that is, the date of the last game of the tournament - although in the case of the 4th Fujitsu Cup this game wasn't actually played).
1st Fujitsu 1988-09-03 Takemiya Masaki 2nd Fujitsu 1989-08-05 Takemiya Masaki 1st Ing 1989-09-05 Cho Hun-hyeon 3rd Fujitsu 1990-08-04 Rin Kaiho 4th Fujitsu 1991-08-03 Cho Chikun 3rd Tong Yang 1992-01-27 Yi Ch'ang-ho 5th Fujitsu 1992-08-01 Otake Hideo 2nd Ing 1993-05-20 Seo Pong-su 4th Tong Yang 1993-06-08 Yi Ch'ang-ho 6th Fujitsu 1993-08-07 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 5th Tong Yang 1994-06-22 Cho Hun-hyeon 7th Fujitsu 1994-08-06 Cho Hun-hyeon 6th Tong Yang 1995-05-24 Ma Xiaochun 8th Fujitsu 1995-08-05 Ma Xiaochun 7th Tong Yang 1996-03-20 Yi Ch'ang-ho 9th Fujitsu 1996-08-03 Yi Ch'ang-ho 3rd Ing 1996-11-06 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 1st Samsung 1996-11-29 Yoda Norimoto 8th Tong Yang 1997-04-18 Cho Hun-hyeon 1st LG 1997-05-19 Yi Ch'ang-ho 10th Fujitsu 1997-08-02 Kobayashi Koichi 2nd Samsung 1997-11-28 Yi Ch'ang-ho 2nd LG 1998-03-23 O Rissei 9th Tong Yang 1998-05-13 Yi Ch'ang-ho 11th Fujitsu 1998-08-01 Yi Ch'ang-ho 3rd Samsung 1999-02-08 Yi Ch'ang-ho 3rd LG 1999-05-10 Yi Ch'ang-ho 1st Chunlan 1999-06-29 Cho Hun-hyeon 12th Fujitsu 1999-08-07 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 4th Samsung 1999-12-07 Yi Ch'ang-ho 4th LG 2000-05-10 Yu Bin 2nd Chunlan 2000-06-22 O Rissei 13th Fujitsu 2000-08-12 Cho Hun-hyeon 5th Samsung 2000-12-14 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 4th Ing 2001-02-16 Yi Ch'ang-ho 5th LG 2001-05-21 Yi Ch'ang-ho 3rd Chunlan 2001-06-26 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 14th Fujitsu 2001-08-04 Cho Hun-hyeon 6th Samsung 2001-12-14 Cho Hun-hyeon 6th LG 2002-04-01 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 15th Fujitsu 2002-08-03 Yi Se-tol 7th Samsung 2003-01-14 Cho Hun-hyeon 1st Toyota 2003-01-29 Yi Ch'ang-ho 4th Chunlan 2003-03-18 Yi Ch'ang-ho 7th LG 2003-03-27 Yi Se-tol 16th Fujitsu 2003-07-07 Yi Se-tol 8th Samsung 2003-12-11 Cho Chikun 8th LG 2004-04-01 Yi Ch'ang-ho 17th Fujitsu 2004-07-05 Pak Yeong-hun